Car-door fastener



Oct. 25, 1927. J. L ELER CAR DOOR FASTENER Filed Nov. 11. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet ll t qlllllll I I" fawn 12. 2 1 7. 0c 92 J. L. ELER CAR DOOR FASTENER Filed Nov. 11. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR A TTORNE Y Patented Unit 25, 1227.

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JOHN L. ELER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASfsIGNOE, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO NA- 'lIONAL MALLEABLE AND STEEL OASTINGS ooaronarlon or OHIO.

can-noon Application filed. November Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a car door fastener embodying my invention and showing the device in locked position; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, with the hasp in section; Figs. 3 and e are front and side elevations, respectively, of the has; retainingbolt; Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the device with the bolt in unlocked position; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 illustrate a modified form of bolt, Figs. 6 and 7 showing, respectively, front and side elevations thereof, and Fig, 8 showing in front elevation the attachment of the bolt to the lower end of the plate.

My invention relates to car door fasteners and provides a door fastener in which the hasp can not be released from the staple except by an tended movement of the bolt. Doorfasteners now in use can ordi .narily be released by a comparatively short movement of the bolt, particularly when thin sealing; wires.are used, as these wires can often be fed up through the staple opening along with the bolt to an extent sufficient. to allow the hasp from the staple. In my improved device, as the bolt must be lifted and then rotated through a wide angle before the hasp is re leased from the staple, such a condition can not occur, andhence it is much more nearly theft proof than the types now in general use. My invention also consists in the various features which I shall hereinafter describe and claim.

Referring to -the drawings, A indicates a plate having a staple 2 and suitable apertures 3 therein by which it may be bolted or otherwise attached to the car door sill. The plate A has an oblong vertically extending slot t bounded by the overhanging rib 5. The plate A at its lower end' has an extension 6 having a recess or pocket 7 therein for reception of the lower end 8 of the lock 13, and the extension 6 and end 8 are also slotted at 9 from side to side to provide registering apertures for reception of the sealing wire or ribbon C v The bolt B is a C-shaped member, on the rear side of the upper arm of which is a circular lug 10 having a circular flange 11 intended to engage and be retained in the slot 4: of the plate A by the rib 5. Extending from the lower side of the upper arm of the bolt is a locking projection 12 similar to the projection 8 at the lower end of the bolt 13.

to be disengaged GQIVIPANY, 6F CLEVELAND, OHIO, A

FASTENER.

11, 1922. Serial No. 600,205.

The hasp D is preferably of standard construction, having at its forward end a slot 13 to pass over the staple 2, and at its rear 1 end another opening 16 through which the hasp is attached to the car door by the bracket 15.

in applying my improved device to a car, the bolt B is first threaded through the slot 4; from the rear side of the plate A until the flanged head 11 of the lug 10 engages the under side of the rib 5. The plate A is then bolted. to the door frame in the usual manner by bolts passing through the bolt holes 3.

In using my improved device, after the door 1s closed the hasp D is passed over the staple 2 so that the staple 2 projects through the slot 13 in the hasp, thus leaving the aperture 16 in the staple 2 extending outside the hasp D. The bolt 0 is then lowered into the position shown in Fig. 1, in which the projection 12 has entered the aperture 16 in the staple 2, thus confining the hasp D between it and the plate A, and the projection 8 at the lower end of the bolt B has entered the recess 7 in the lower end of the plate A.

' This brings the slot in the lower end of the bolt B into register with the slots 9 of the plate A, and the sealing wire or ribbon may then be applied. v

To open the car door, the sealing wire C is first removed and the bolt B may then be lifted to release the projections 8 and 12 from plate A and staple 2, respectively, and then the bolt B may be rotated about its lug 10 to free the staple, as is shown in Fig. 5. The hasp D may then be taken off the staple 2 and the door opened.

Due to the slack in the sealing wire and the necessary clearance between the parts, the bolt B may be raised sufficiently to allow the projections 8 and 12 to clear the recess 7 in the plate A and the aperture 16 in the staple 2, respectively. But this movement is not suflicient to permit the hasp from being drawn over the staple, since to unlock the hasp it is necessary to rotate the bolt l3 about its lug 10 to clear it from the forward end of the hasp D, and such rotative movement will take up the maximum amount of slack due to the looseness of the wire and clearance of the parts before the bolt B is clear of the hasp D.

As the lug 10 is preferably integral with the bolt B and as the bolt B is applied to the plate A before the plate is attached to Lea-I the door sill, the bolt cannot be removed from the plate after its attachment to the CELT. I j I In Figs. 6, 7 and 8 I have shown a moditied form of my invention, in which the lower end of the bolt B is made U-shaped so that its legs 18 will straddle one side of the extension 6. Both sides of the extension 6 and both legs 18 of the bolt B are apcrtured for the sealing Wire so that when the sealing wire is applied the slack in the sealing wire will be taken up much more quickly when the bolt is raised than when the bolt has only one leg or projection at its lower end.

Car door fasteners made in accordance with my invention are extremely etlieient in preventing even the slightest opening of car doors by unauthorized persons when a sealing wire has been applied.

The terms and expressions which I have employed are used as terms of description and not of limitation, and I have no intention, in the use Of such terms and expressions, of excluding any mechanical equivalents of the features shown and described,

or portions thereof, but recognize that various structural modifications are possible within the scope of the invention claimed.

lVhat I claim is:

1. A car door fastener comprising a plate" attached to a car door sill having a staple attached thereto, a haspattached to the car fitting over the staple, and a bolt having a plurality of projections, one seating in the staple and the other in the plate when in locked position, said bolt having also a rotative engagement with said plate, and said hasp being releasable by the said bolt on vertical movement of the bolt a suiiicient distance to free one projection from its seat in the plate, thereby freeing the other projection l rom the staple on rotation ot the the staple when the bolt is in locked position, the said pro ect-ions when in such position being located substantially in a vertical middle plane of the plate, said bolt having also a rotativeengagement with said plate, said hasp being releasable by the said bolt only on disengagement of the projections from the hasp and the plateand on rotation of the bolt on an axis transverse to the length of the bolt, and sealing means for securing the bolt to the plate when in locked position. i i

3. Acar door fastener comprising a plate having a staple attached thereto, a hasp engaging the staple, the plate having a slot in the long axis thereof, a bolt insert-able through the slotqtrom the rear of said plate and having a shoulder thereon to engage a retaining shoulder about the slot in said plate, said bolt having a projection adapted to enter the staple and overlie the hasp when in locked position, said bolt being rotatable about its said shoulder to disengage thesaid hasp, andsealing means for securing the bolt to the plate when in locked position.

ft. A car door fastener comprising a plate having a staple thereon and a slot therein, a bolt insertable tl'irough said slot from the rear of the plate and secured in said slot and having reciprocating and rotary movements therewith, a hasp engaging said staple and underlying said bolt when in locked position, said bolt being arranged to be moved into and out of locked position by reciprocatory and 'rotary'movements, and sealing means for securing the bolt to the plate when in locked position.

5. A car door fastener comprising a plate 90 having a staple attached thereto, a 'hasp engaging the staple, and a bolt pivotally attached to the plate, projections on the bolt seating in the plate and staple, one of said projections engaging the hasp when the parts are in locked position, the second of said projections overlying the hasp when the V hasp has been freed from the first, whereby a substantial rotation of the bolt is required to free. the hasp fromthe second pro- 100 jcction,

6. A car door fastenercomprising a plate attached to a car door sill having a plurality of apertured projections, one ot which comprises a staple, a hasp attached to the 105 car fitting over the staple projectiomcz-ind a bolt having a plurality otaligned tongues adapted to enter theapertured projections, the hasp on endwise m oven'ient oi the bolt being alternately engaged and being freed from the engagement by one of the tongues on said end'wisemovement and by the second tongue on rotation 01'' the bolt after the said endwise movement.

JOHN L. Etna.

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